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Originally Posted by octothorp
I think Clinton does need to get more of her own message out and articulating her platform, if not to win the election, then to clearly establish her presidency and what her agenda is going to be, so she can claim a mandate. But there's lots of time for that, and the best time for it is once the debates start and in the final weeks. Right now the campaign turmoil and Trump's downward spiral is storyline you don't want to interrupt, and it's pointless to try to get out your message now.
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Thing is , unlike the GOP Clinton used the convention to actually lay out the platform and that is a big chunk of the reason she got the bounce she did. The conventions is when people actually start paying attention and looking at the platform. Remember the more centrist republicans lamenting how effective the democrats were in that convention? They sounded very center-right republican which is the area where you pick up the independents.
She has continued to lay out policy/platform and basically it passes muster with very little to tear into. Well atleast very little to tear into when the opposition either can't lay out something coherent and when they do it doesn't please the majority of Americans. The GOP since the Tea Party insurgency has gone backwards in their social policy while the public as a whole has gotten more progressive and liberal. For goodness sakes they've put in support for conversion therapy in their platform and have a hard line evangelical as a running mate that doesn't think condoms are effective at preventing disease (and thinks abstinence only teachings are effective when it has been proven over and over it isn't).